Safety: a matter for “professionals”?

Abstract

At the request of industrial partners, the FonCSI’s Strategic Analyses Scientific Group (GSAS) has conducted some research on the professionalisation of industrial safety. In this Opinion Piece, Claude Gilbert, Emeritus Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and President of the GSAS, shares with us the group’s initial findings on this topic which, until now, has been the subject of very little research. This piece was also put forward to be used as the introduction to a research seminar which gathered international experts on 12th and 13th November 2015.